Rensselaer County Opioid analgesic prescription, crude rate per 1,000 population

Rensselaer County Opioid analgesic prescription, age-adjusted rate per 1,000 population

Rensselaer County Opioid analgesic prescription rate per 1,000 population

Crude rate

Age adjusted rate

Year

Single Year

3-Year Average

NYS exc. NYC

Single Year

3-Year Average

NYS exc. NYC

2012

643.1

590.7

601.4

544.8

2013

683.9

661.6

621.0

629.4

610.0

566.0

2014

657.9

664.0

602.6

598.9

605.6

543.1

2015

650.3

643.6

601.6

588.6

580.9

537.5

2016

622.8

613.5

576.1

555.2

548.3

507.0

2017

567.2

522.9

500.7

453.1

County of residence was assigned based on ZIP code for cases in which patient county of residence was listed as unknown or missing, but a valid NY ZIP code was present.

The rates presented are controlled substance prescription rates per population. These numbers are federally-standardized indicators used to measure types of progress toward combating the controlled substance epidemic in certain states. They are not rates of the number of different people who are receiving a controlled substance prescription in a certain population. Rather, they are rates of the number of specific controlled substance prescriptions written and dispensed within the period. For example, if a county has a rate of 25, that means there were 25 prescriptions per 1,000 people in the population. However, it does not necessarily mean that 25 out of 1,000 individuals received a prescription; all 25 controlled substance prescriptions could have been for one individual.

Because dispensed prescription data for controlled substances can be reported or corrected after the date the drug was dispensed, the historic prescription data on this webpage is subject to subsequent updating.